Estructuras y mecanismos en la fisiología

We reconstruct physiological theory starting from the initial experiences of Claude Bernard - its paradigmatic exemplar - using a modified version of the structuralistic conception of theories, which characterises them by its exemplars, and not by its models, as it happens in the standard version. We preserve the structuralistic distinction between non theoretical and theoretical elements, and we stablish the relationships between the different exemplars of physiology, and between them and the exemplars of biomedical theories. After that, and as a natural consequense of the reconstruction, we ...